Our Projects

2018-2019

Project-based Homeschooling: Plant Project

Project-based Homeschooling: American Elm

Cornell Lab of Ornithology – A big field trip for the bird project

 

2017-2018 

A year of long, meaningful projects

Three Years of Piano – Piano has moved beyond a “project” to a chosen vocation. I will make occasional announcements in my monthly updates.

It’s still birds

Homeschooling & Music: Cello

Board Games

The Family Project: Our Yard

 

2016-2017

Project-based Homeschooling: It’s All for the Birds (in a good way)

My 1st Grader’s Ongoing Projects

Our 4th Grade Piano Adventures

Digital Games and the Learning They Have Inspired

 

2015-2016

Project-based Homeschooling: Piano

Project-based Homeschooling: Robotics

Piano Lessons

Project-based Homeschooling: Carnivorous Plant Update

Project-based Homeschooling: Timeline of My Son’s Star Wars Project

Project-based Homeschooling: Paper Dinosaurs + 1

Project-based Homeschooling: Pottery Class Update

Project-based Homeschooling: Growing Mushrooms Update

Project-based Homeschooling: Rube Goldberg Machine

Project-based Homeschooling: Tardigrades

Project-based Homeschooling: Sketching at the Botanical Garden

Project-based Homeschooling: My five-year-old’s grocery store

Project-based Homeschooling: Birds & Feathers

 

2014-2015

Project-based Homeschooling: Carnivorous Plants

Project-based Homeschooling:  Steps I Took to Support My Son’s Interest in Carnivorous Plants

The Power of Time and Materials

Project-based Homeschooling: Mama’s Sketchbook Habit

Project-based Homeschooling: My seven-year-old and his pottery

Project-based Homeschooling: Long-term clay interest

Project-based Homeschooling: This year’s cardboard projects

Project-based Homeschooling: DNA

Project-based Homeschooling: A Mushroom Project Teaches Mama When to Let Go

Project-based Homeschooling: Angry Birds – You Never Know

Homeschooling Preschool the Second Time: My four-year-old’s Letter D

Project-based Homeschooling Preschool: My four-year-old’s projects

 

2013-2014

A Child-Led Project: The Celery Lettuce Cake

Building the Titanic: Project-based Homeschooling – an example of PBH in real life.

Rockets and the Benefits of Failure: Project-based Homeschooling

The Little Projects: Project-based Homeschooling

Examples of how I followed my child’s interests and showed him “possibilities” before he was able to tell me what he wanted to do:

Music Appreciation with Beethoven

A Kindergarten Child-Led Project: Seeds, Plants, Gardening

The Eastern King Snake & Our Snake Project

Using Storytelling and Puppet Shows in Homeschool

Raising Tadpoles